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Rangel wants draft back to punish rich kids
New York Post ^ | July 8, 2010

Posted on 07/08/2010 12:38:02 PM PDT by bjorn14

Rep. Charles Rangel yesterday again called for bringing back the national draft -- right at the Times Square recruiting station. For the third time since the Iraq War began, the Harlem Democrat announced his plans to introduce a bill requiring all Americans to serve in the armed forces. "If you love your country, be prepared to serve," said Rangel, a Korean War veteran. Congress should stop funding the war and, instead, use tax dollars to bring troops home, he said. Rangel, who this year was stripped of his chairmanship of the House Ways and Means Committee, said the bill calls for men and women 18-42 to sign up for the draft during wartime. It will likely be introduced next week.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: army; classwarfare; draft; kids; military; rangel; rich
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1 posted on 07/08/2010 12:38:12 PM PDT by bjorn14
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“An Army of Slaves” can be the new slogan


2 posted on 07/08/2010 12:39:38 PM PDT by GeronL (Just say NO to TV, it rots your brain!)
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To: bjorn14

Rangel should be in jail.


3 posted on 07/08/2010 12:40:38 PM PDT by boomop1
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Back during the President Bush years I kept running into people claiming the Republicans were the ones wanting to reinstate the draft. One person (my daughter’s Judo teacher) even went so far as to say “you lie!” when I told him it was a Democrat. I brought him a copy of a news article showing it was the Dems. He never brought it up again.


4 posted on 07/08/2010 12:41:22 PM PDT by scan59 (Markets always regulate better than government can.)
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To: bjorn14

Rangel does not support the military as a defense against foreign enemies.

He is either promoting a jobs program - or a civilian militia for future civil unrest.


5 posted on 07/08/2010 12:41:50 PM PDT by sodpoodle (Despair - Man's surrender. Laughter - God's redemption)
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To: bjorn14

Free countries don’t need slave armies.


6 posted on 07/08/2010 12:41:58 PM PDT by jimt
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To: bjorn14

This is so fraking obvious. Rangel wants to bring back those happy golden years of “Hell no, we won’t go!”

He wants to cripple the U.S. military by filling it with unwilling conscripts. He wants riots on campuses and mass demonstrations in the streets.

Also, he’s doubtlessly in that time warp common to all civil rights “heroes” and thinks that the Army of today is just like the Army of 1950.


7 posted on 07/08/2010 12:42:48 PM PDT by sinanju
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“Rangel wants draft back to punish rich kids”

B.S - he wants to see the military filled with resentful draftees that will cause problems and ruin efficiency. It kills him and the other liberals that we have the best military in the world - and it is all volunteer.

And because it is volunteer, it is made up of the FINEST in our society. People that would never follow obviously illegal orders, as might be issued some day the the fruit-bat currently in the White House!

8 posted on 07/08/2010 12:42:51 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name
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And how exactly did the draft force rich kids to serve back when it was in force? Anyone who had money was able to sidestep the draft if he/she so chose.


9 posted on 07/08/2010 12:43:11 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: scan59

Of course. Once he learned it was a Democrat the huge, burning issue was no longer of any importance.


10 posted on 07/08/2010 12:43:29 PM PDT by GeronL (Just say NO to TV, it rots your brain!)
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To: bjorn14

This is so fraking obvious. Rangel wants to bring back those happy golden years of “Hell no, we won’t go!”

He wants to cripple the U.S. military by filling it with unwilling conscripts. He wants riots on campuses and mass demonstrations in the streets.

Also, he’s doubtlessly in that time warp common to all civil rights “heroes” and thinks that the Army of today is just like the Army of 1950.

Good luck to him. I’m sure his unimpeachable moral authority carries more weight now than ever.


11 posted on 07/08/2010 12:43:33 PM PDT by sinanju
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To: bjorn14

I want integrity back into the justice system to punish tax cheat Rangel.


12 posted on 07/08/2010 12:44:00 PM PDT by Obadiah (I can see November from my house!)
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To: bjorn14
Charlie approves of slavery, just not for black people.
13 posted on 07/08/2010 12:44:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
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Obama said the same thing, in so many words:

http://www.therightperspective.org/2008/09/28/obama-calls-for-us-military-draft/


14 posted on 07/08/2010 12:45:21 PM PDT by Qbert
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Oh, Charlie's been performing this impious “street theater” for years going back nearly a decade. He's kinda’ like a geezer uncle that keeps repeating the same stories at Thanksgiving and Christmas forever. Come to think of it, Rangel is exactly like my crazy uncle, and he's doing the same thing.

As long as either has an audience (family/media) that will put up with it, they'll keep doing it. He's getting paid quite a lot to keep telling the same story though. You'd think he'd come up with some new material.

15 posted on 07/08/2010 12:45:33 PM PDT by Habibi ("It is vain to do with more what can be done with less." - William of Occam)
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To: pnh102

exactly, some registered then dodged (clinton), others never even bothered to register with selective service (obama).

others took ballet lessons for deferment


16 posted on 07/08/2010 12:46:04 PM PDT by esoxmagnum
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So you are saying all of those WWII vets were an army of slaves. And WWWI and Korea and Vietnam. When are you packing your bag to leave the country. I'm sure you don't want to live with all the slaves.
17 posted on 07/08/2010 12:46:40 PM PDT by org.whodat
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To: bjorn14

Fat Bastard comes to mind here.

Btw, your children and grandchildren going to be exempt idiot?! Shut the hell up and go to hell already, kkthx. =.=


18 posted on 07/08/2010 12:47:45 PM PDT by cranked
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Democrat draft, back again.

Remember back in 2004 when the meme (all over MTV especially) was that Boosh wanted to bring back the DRAFT?

And then the Republicans exposed that the only legislation in the House and Senate to bring back the Draft was exclusively sponsored by Democrats? Democrats who refused to even vote on their own bill?


19 posted on 07/08/2010 12:48:07 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (I wish our president loved the US military as much as he loves Paul McCartney.)
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Bonehead must not be aware of the PSAs that run regularly reminding young men turning 18 that they have to sign up for selective service or risk being eligible for a stated list of government benefits. The law is already in place. He's grandstanding again. Besides, the military has all the people it can handle right now. You have to be very careful if you are in the military as they are looking for any excuse to boot you out. The massive levels of unemployment have lots of folks wishing the military was an employment option. We have no need of a draft.

Let's not forget that Barney Frank is pushing big cuts in the military at the same time bonehead Rangel is yammering about a draft. The RATS can't even sing from the same sheet of music.

20 posted on 07/08/2010 12:48:21 PM PDT by Myrddin
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